The contemporary Forerunner civilizations—no longer the ones that had first encountered the Hive: the Hive evolved—lost perhaps a fractional-percent of their population. And another fractional percent who survived the first attack ran and hid, brain-struck soldiers deserting their posts, civilians grabbing whatever they could carry on their person and taking to the time roads. A man who called himself Henryk Lofstrom ran and hid in a small kingdom on the north American coastline.
